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Subject: Re: Can a PDA be a laptop replacement

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Jason Pettus

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Date Posted: 04/30/05 Sat
In reply to: Bjoern 's message, "Can a PDA be a laptop replacement" on 04/29/05 Fri

I use my Palm Treo 600 as a laptop replacement all the time, in the following ways:

1) I'm a travel writer and am always having to type up stories while on the go. Now that I have one of those fold-out keyboards for my Palm, I never use a full-sized computer at all anymore; I just type on my Treo while out, with the same speed I could do on a laptop.

2) Did I mention that I'm an *unemployed* travel writer? I'm so poor, in fact, that my home computer is still a 15-year-old Mac Centris, if you can believe that. Needless to say, I have no home internet access, and since I don't have a day job I don't have work access either; so I literally do all my online interaction (emails, web surfing, downloading, etc) through my Treo, not through a full-sized computer.

3) I also update and maintain one of my blogs ( http://ilikejason.blogspot.com ) exclusively through my Treo, using a program called mo:Blog (which actually isn't very good, which is why I'm not running their URL nor recommending it - it's just the only one I've been able to find thus far, unfortunately).

My friends think I must be Palm's best friend, since I use mine in such a pervasive way; on the contrary, I warn them, I'm one of those high-end users who's endlessly finicky about my device, and I'm sure someone PalmOne wishes would just go away.

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[> Subject: Re: Can a PDA be a laptop replacement
Author: Mike Anderton [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 05/01/05 Sun really depends on your use, it could not substitute my Dell laptop. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]